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Connacht establish Rugby Scholarship Programme with Yeats College

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  • 26-06-2013 4:35pm
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    JagerScout
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    The first of its kind in the country, this scholarship is ideally suited to students that cherish a dual ambition of playing at the highest professional levels in rugby while, at the same time, creating a Leaving Cert that will give them significant opportunity to excel academically and enjoy a professional career once their ambitions in rugby have been achieved.

    As part of the scholarship, students would embark on a one or two year Leaving Cert programme, which would have a unique individualized timetable, allowing the student to achieve, agreed sporting, academic and fitness milestones. Each day, students would be able to attend class while maintaining their obligations with the Connacht Rugby Sub-Academy system.

    With Student Housing included, the development rugby players will be based in Galway City centre - studying at the private co-educational day school at the state-of-the-art campus on College Road whilst developing their rugby skills at the Sportsground.

    Pretty interesting news.


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    wp_rathead
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    interesting is right, but would they not be better off playing schools rugby?

    Hopefully it's a success


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    AngeGal
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    wprathead wrote: »
    interesting is right, but would they not be better off playing schools rugby?

    Hopefully it's a success

    Perhaps it's aimed at those wishing to resit the leaving?


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    decisions
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    Yeats is like the Institute in Dublin isn't it? What's the story with schools rugby in Connacht, is it akin to Leinster or is club rugby more prominent?


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    ormond lad
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    wprathead wrote: »
    interesting is right, but would they not be better off playing schools rugby?

    Hopefully it's a success
    Presume those who attend will get additional training they would miss out on by attending Yeats.
    They may still play Youths rugby
    decisions wrote: »
    Yeats is like the Institute in Dublin isn't it? What's the story with schools rugby in Connacht, is it akin to Leinster or is club rugby more prominent?
    Yeats is similar to IofE in Dublin.
    In Connacht you can play both schools and youths rugby. Not restricted like other provinces. Sean O Brien who had been in school in Oranmore before back in Roscrea and Robbie Henshaw in Marist Athlone had won all Ireland youth titles with Galwegians and Buccaneers in recent years while still playing schools rugby.


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    its_phil
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    ormond lad wrote: »
    Presume those who attend will get additional training they would miss out on by attending Yeats.
    They may still play Youths rugby
    Yeats is similar to IofE in Dublin.
    In Connacht you can play both schools and youths rugby. Not restricted like other provinces. Sean O Brien who had been in school in Oranmore before back in Roscrea and Robbie Henshaw in Marist Athlone had won all Ireland youth titles with Galwegians and Buccaneers in recent years while still playing schools rugby.

    You can be registered to both a Connacht club and Leinster school at the same time.


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    seanm92
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    decisions wrote: »
    Yeats is like the Institute in Dublin isn't it? What's the story with schools rugby in Connacht, is it akin to Leinster or is club rugby more prominent?

    To be honest the schools scene in Connacht is very poor at the moment, there are usually only 6 or 8 teams in the senior cup with 1 or 2 which are pretty strong, while the rest generally struggle. In recent years strides have been made by non-traditional rugby schools such as Calasanctius Oranmore and Rice College, but they've since fallen back again somewhat. Club rugby would probably be stronger than schools.

    I'd imagine this is aimed toward players repeating, as mentioned by another poster, allowing players to train with a pro team while also completing their studies.


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